Santorum’s triple win rattles Republican race

Christian conservative Rick Santorum’s unexpected trio of state wins has reignited his White House bid and raised new question marks over Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney.

Santorum, written off only a few weeks ago, won caucuses in Minnesota and Colorado and a primary in Missouri on Tuesday — a clean sweep that represented another stunning turnaround in the topsy-turvy Republican presidential race.

The established wisdom was that Santorum was surging in the Midwest and could take Minnesota and Missouri thanks to support from evangelical Christians, but no one expected him to win out west in the Rocky Mountains.
It was a bitter blow for Romney, who romped home in Colorado during his 2008 bid, scooping more than 60 percent of the vote.

“The Romney bandwagon just went in the ditch,” CNN analyst David Gergen said, as pundits scratched their heads and struggled to explain the loss.

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